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• Friday, September 26, 2008 08:27 PM

  21st Century CNN Responso-Meter Really Likes Improving the US Standing in the World!

  I was initially distracted enough by the CNN real-time colored lines graphing the responses of D's, R's and I's to consider changing channels.

  I'm glad I stuck with it to see the only significant rise in all three lines in the whole debate.

  It was near the end when Obama was talking about the importance of improving the US's standing in the world. All three lines nearly hit the top of the graph and stayed there during the duration of that point.

  They fell and stayed flat when McCain ducked the question of "do you think the US's standing has fallen?"

  I hope that Obama's advisers saw this b/c it seemed like it greatly and postively resonated with all three groups.

  I also heard hints of Obama positioning himself as the candidate with 21st Century thinking and by contrast that McCain is stuck in the 20th (right around 1971 or so). I think he needs to push this more as it will allow him to pull together many themes about the clear needs for leadership in this new century and how he, not his opponent is the one best suited for the presidency.

  —Buckeye Poli-animal Read Buckeye Poli-animal's other letters
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